How EC2 + EBS Actually Bills: A Breakdown for Engineers
The "Stopped Instance" Trap Every AWS engineer has done it. You spin up an EC2 instance...
AWSCloudDevOps
4 min read
Archive
Older posts.
Early posts from 2025 and early 2026. Kept for the record, not indexed by search engines, and some of the product details are out of date. Also as a podcast
10 posts tagged "DevOps"
How I Built an "Agentic" AWS Cost Optimizer (That Doesn't Break Production)
I’ve spent 25 years in the Software Industry, and I’ve learned one universal truth: Engineers are...
AWSFinOpsPython5 min read
FinOps Implementation: A Roadmap for Cost Monitoring in 2026
As the founder of CloudWise, a focused AWS cost optimization platform, I have navigated the...
AWSArchitectureDevOps5 min read
EC2 Spot vs. Reserved: Which Saved Us $5,000 Last Quarter?
As the founder of CloudWise, an AWS cost optimization platform, I’ve spent countless hours analyzing...
AWSArchitectureDevOps4 min read
New Feature Alert: Waste and Anomaly Detection
Stop bleeding money on AWS. CloudWise now automatically detects idle resources and cost...
AWSCloudDevOps4 min read
From Manual Tagging to AI Detection
Building CloudWise has given me a unique view into AWS spending patterns across hundreds of...
AWSCloudDevOps1 min read
Orphaned EBS Volumes Costing You $$$?
Building CloudWise has given me a unique view into AWS spending patterns across hundreds of...
AWSCloudDevOps1 min read
I Built an AI-Powered AWS Waste Detector (and Found $4,200 in My Own Account)
The $4,200 Mistake I once left a staging environment running on AWS for 6 months. Cost:...
AWSCloud ComputingDevOps4 min read
The $847 Idle RDS Instance: A Deep Dive into AWS Cost Optimization
As the founder of CloudWise, an AWS cost optimization platform, I have spent countless hours...
AWSArchitectureDevOps4 min read